Sonia sanchez

Sonia Sanchez

"I think that the reason why art stays alive is that the artist grows. I mean the body doesn't stay the same; the brain doesn't stay the same. Your art can't stay the same." -- Sonia Sanchez

The film about legendary poet, playwright, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez hits the country's biggest documentary festival tonight. Co-director Sabrina Gordon explains why Sanchez was the perfect subject.

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For poet Sonia Sanchez, poetry is like music: it becomes something entirely different when translated to sound. “What I remember about reading the first time to an audience is that I was stricken by how the words stayed on the page,” she said, “and how at the same time, I remember the language of my […]

A Black Women Writers Project Production on Instagram: "Sonia Sanchez (1934–) on her first visit to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem, New York) at age 19. Source: Five Questions with Sonia Sanchez, Stony Brook University (2016) #archives #soniasanchez #blackwomenwriters #blackwomenwritersarchive #blackhistory #jeanblackwellhutson #blacklit"

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